KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)
Please tell us how you’d like to see the KACE System Deployment Appliance product improved!
99 results found
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Keep Bootable USB images on file and NOTIFY when completed
When creating images, the option to 'Create Bootable USB flash drive image for this System Image' takes a long time to build, with NO indication of progress and NO NOTIFICATION OF COMPLETION. It expects you to keep refreshing the page until you discover when it has completed. Am I the only person who despises being at the mercy of the refresh button? On top of that programming oversight, once you have download the completed image, it is deleted from the server and will not allow you to download it a second time? What benefit is there in that? Why are…
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Detach the image media from the image deployment job
The idea is to have the same process for the Imaging that the scripted installation. Then the image captured will be stored in the media Library and not in the deployment image tab. To create an image deployment job, we will select the image in a dropdown list.
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Join multicast session from KBE
Right now, there doesn't appear to be a way to join a multicast session from the KBE. This would be very helpful if we get a new shipment of PCs in, and set them all up. Then, we just tell the K2 to start the session and wait for 30 clients. This way we don't need to harvest mac addresses before hand... We can just deploy.
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name manual deployments
It would be great if we had the option to name a manual deployment. That way when multiple deployments are kicked off we can follow which is which.
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Quick view for all Dell models supported by KBE
Be able to click on a KBE in the K2000 and see what Dell supported workstations they will work on. Having the driver report is nice, but having to search for the actual network driver for the machine I am working on is a pain. Being able to see the model and OS the KBE would speed up this process.
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Slipstream Patches Into scripted Install
It would be very beneficial to have the K2000 be able to slipstream MS patches similar to nlite/RT7lite with all current patches. Right now a Windows 7 sp1 Scripted install has 170 patches pending from MS.
I see our K1000 as a maintainer of machines not an initial configuratior.123 votesWe’re looking at this after we get more K1000 synchronization built into the K2000.
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Add a Patch Feed for scripted imaging just like the drivers feed
Add a patch feed that you can subscribe to MS patches, adobe patches firefox ect and then apply patch feeds to scripted images so your images always come off the bench with the latest patching.
15 votesWe’re looking into extending the linking and integration abilities between a K1 and K2 and this would be one of the features we’d implement when that time comes.
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K2000 and Bit Locker
Issue: If MS BitLocker is enabled on the Client Computer, then when the BIOS hands off the boot process to PXE via the NIC and 'times out', then boots to the HDD, after it hits the pxe boot menu, this will trigger bitlocker.
Solution: I need a way for the BIOS to hand control off to PXE and once the PXE option menu is encountered and it defaults to the HDD, but w/o this process triggering MS bitlocker drive encryption.
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Kace agent automatically install on the K2000 as a post install task when new updates come out
Wouldn't it be great if when a new agent update came out on the K1000 that you wouldn't have to manually update your post install task for the agent on the K2000.
14 votesWe’re looking into extending the linking and integration abilities between a K1 and K2 and this would be one of the features we’d implement when that time comes.
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Adding a single SI/KI to multiple RSAs at one time
If I create a new image and I want to sync that out to all my RSAs, it would be nice to have an option to add that item to sync to "selected RSAs" or "All RSAs" instead of having to add the image individually to each RSA, which is painful when you have 10+ RSAs.
13 votesWe agree! This is great feature and the team is working diligently to get it into a future release. Stay tuned for more details.
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Custom Columns in Deployments area
Allow customers to change the width of existing data columns, add custom columns with pre-existing fields (i.e. date created, last date modified, last date used), and remove columns that customer does not need or want (i.e. hostname) all within the Deployments area of the K2000.
This would great help the organization of images, and the quick viewing of information for image rotation, updating, statistics, etc.
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k2 Off-Board Package Transfer 'backup now' option
Please include a k2 Off-Board Package Transfer 'backup now' option instead of having to edit the Off-Board Package Transfer settings each time to edit the time on the schedule.
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upload custom config.xml file for USMT
K2000 - allow upload of a custom config.xml file to better configure USMT.
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Please include an exclusion list for k-images
I would like to see the ability to exclude files from being included in a k-image such as pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys to allow the images to be smaller
2 votesGreat idea, if we can make it foolproof so that the image is bootable. Need to have a “never exclude” list.
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Be able to restore the K2000 database
I just found out that you can not restore the K2000 database even though you can backup the K2000 database. I want to be able to have all my settings if there is a catastrophic failure with my server or just need to refresh the hardware. I have to recreate all my labels, users, Ldap authentication, all my general settings, date time settings, relink all of my RSAs and K1000.
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Capture Full Backup of SDA
Currently, backups are only done if a change to the item being backed up has occurred. This is incremental behavior. We should have the option to specify this behavior (via checkbox, for example).
What I would like is the ability to do a full backup of everything at will - scheduled or otherwise.
An example of a problem arising from the current solution is this: empty the Restore share and then try to back everything up. You cannot. If you offload your backup and then lose it, you cannot make another full backup.
Ideally, everything would be rolled up into…
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Dynamic MAC & Host Name querying between K1000 & K2000
Auto-populate Host Name of machines in K2000 System Inventory via K2000 query of MAC address in K1000 Computer Inventory.
17 votesWays to unify the identity of machines on the K1000 and K2000 are on the roadmap, and some have been implemented in 3.3. Unclear if MAC address is reliable enough to assure identity, what with ARP issues and the like, but we’re looking at ways to make integrated appliances work better together.
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70 votes
We’d like to improve schedulling and automated tasks across the board on the K2000.
I’m not as enthusiastic about supporting user state migration to non-K2000 storage. The advantage of the K2000 is that everything’s centralized. We already have export of user state in 3.3. If the problem is not having enough native storage on the K2000, we’ve heard that loud and clear.
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Ability to apply K1 labels from the K2 as postinstall tasks
It would be beneficial to be able to leverage the label feature in the K1 at time of system deployment.
160 votes
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